It sounds to me like something that's quite dangerious. Maybe it helps people with narcolepsy but maybe it will be another thing people abuse like amphetamines?
Reminds me of a discussion about how cyber implants would bring upon cyberpunk - a person who needs an implant asks themselves: What if I use my implant this way…
It gets abused by people who just want to stay awake, but not in the sense of being a party drug. For example, by students, drivers, security officers, and politicians.
Coffee isn't a Schedule IV controlled substance in the US. I'm using a pretty strict definition of abuse, which is just using medication outside of its indications, or when it isn't prescribed to you.
Are you saying people are using Adderall AND Modafinil at the same time?
That'd be either exceedingly rare or borderline unwise.
I'd love to see some actual forums or papers about that because this seems very unusual given the partly overlapping effect but significantly different paths.
"People who use adderall for work" is a generalization, for example stock traders at Wall Street are famous for doing cocaine, taking amphetamines for work and possibly every smart drug, including modafinil.
But they won't take them all at the same time because then they get too high to work.
Eh, you don't get "high" on modafinil. Adderall or other amphetamines used in therapeutic doses (or even above that) don't make user "get high".
Modafinil is extremely easy and cheap to get for anyone with one eye and one working finger, Adderall a tiny bit harder but easy for a "trader".
"Possibly every smart drug, including modafinil" is just many guesses mixed up, nothing to actually discuss with. I'll stop wasting electrons here, you do you.
I remember there being kind of a burst of articles about it on HN about ten or fifteen years ago, with a lot of commenters talking about their use of it.
> The Prolific advert stated that participants were being sought for an anonymous survey on their views on the use of modafinil as a cognitive enhancer by UK university students.
Textbook case of "how do we select the most number of people who would say yes" ism. People who are taking modafinil and have a strong opinion about it.
If I'm a student I would never click on that ad in the first place if I have never heard of modafinil (like most people haven't), because the survey is about something I don't know. And if I vaguely heard of it and click, there's a friendly awareness page and quiz right at the start about the thing and its side effects that says I won't get paid if I don't answer correctly, what are the chances I'll continue wasting my time?
